On this trip Miss Anthony was invited to spend an evening with Mr. and Mrs. Greeley and met for the first time Charles A. Dana, Alice and Phoebe Gary, Elizabeth F. Ellet, with a number of other literary men and women of New York.  Mr. Greeley himself opened the door for them and sent them hunting through the house for a place to lay their wraps.  After awhile Mrs. Greeley came down stairs with a baby in her arms.  She had put her apron over its face and would not let the visitors look at it “because their magnetism might affect it unfavorably.”  During the evening she rang a bell and a man-servant came in.  After a few words with her he retired and presently brought in a big dish of cake, one of cheese and a pile of plates, set them on the table and went out.  There was a long pause and Mr. Greeley said, “Well, mother, shall I serve the cake?” “Yes, if you want to.”  So he went over to the table, took a piece of cake and one of cheese in his fingers, putting them on a plate and carrying to each, until all were served.  The guests nibbled at them as best they could and after a long time the man brought in a pitcher of lemonade and some glasses and left the room.  Mr. Greeley again asked, “Well, mother, shall I serve the lemonade?” “Yes, if you want to,” she replied, so he filled the glasses, carried to each separately, and then gathered them up one at a time, instead of all together on a waiter.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Greeley were thoroughly cordial and hospitable, both intellectually great, but utterly without social graces.  Yet the conversation at their receptions was so brilliant that the most elegantly served refreshments would have been an unwelcome interruption.

At another time, when Miss Anthony was visiting them, she asked Mrs. Greeley if she would marry the same man again if she were single.  “Yes,” said she, “if I wanted a worthy father for my children, but for personal comfort I should prefer one who did not put his feet where I fell over them every time I went into the room, who knew how to eat, when to go to bed and how to wear his clothes.”

A World’s Temperance Convention had been called to meet in New York September 6 and 7, 1853, and a preliminary meeting was held May 12 in Dr. Spring’s old Brick Church on Franklin Square, where the Times building now stands.  The call invited “all friends of temperance” to be present.  After attending the Anti-Slavery Anniversary in New York, Miss Anthony and Emily Clark went as representatives of the New York Woman’s Temperance Society, and Abby Kelly Foster and Lucy Stone were sent from Massachusetts.  The meeting was organized with Hon. A.C.  Barstow, mayor of Providence, chairman; Rev. R.C.  Crampton, of New York, and Rev. George Duffield, of Pennsylvania, secretaries.  It was opened with prayer, asking God’s blessing on the proceedings about to take place.  A motion was made that all the gentlemen present be admitted as delegates.  Dr. Trail, of New York City, moved that the word “ladies” be inserted, as